[webkit-dev] make-script-test-wrappers not being maintained

[Jarred Nicholls]

On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 10:58 AM, Eric Seidel <eric at webkit.org> wrote:

> We could also teach DumpRenderTree to lie about what "/" is, so we
> could include the scripts like this:
>
> <script href=/fast/js/resources/js-test-pre.js>
>

+1  But this goes back to solving the problem of deriving a path to the
LayoutTests, other than via the DRT executable's location.

These bugs are regarding remapping /tmp/LayoutTests requests, but the same
idea applies to remapping any URL to something "real":

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67239
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65781


>
> On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 1:14 AM, Adam Barth <abarth at webkit.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 12:41 AM, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs at apple.com>
> wrote:
> >> Do you have an idea for how to avoid needing to adjust the number of
> "../"
> >> path segments in the path to the harness? That's the most annoying step
> of
> >> the current copy/paste solution, and it does not seem like simplifying
> the
> >> boilerplate as you suggest resolves that issue.
> >
> > One approach is to have an inline script that examines the URL and
> > sets the base URL appropriately:
> >
> > <script>
> > document.write('<base href="' + location.href.substr(0,
> > location.href.lastIndexOf('LayoutTests/') + 'LayoutTests/'.length) +
> > '">');
> > </script>
> >
> > Of course, you could make the script more readable if you were willing
> > to have it extend to more than one line.  If you wanted to get really
> > fancy, you could restore the original base URL after loading the
> > appropriate test harness scripts.
> >
> > Adam
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